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Jill White
White in 2018
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Manawatu
In office
6 November 1993 – 12 October 1996
Preceded byHamish MacIntyre
Succeeded byconstituency abolished
Member of the New Zealand Parliament
for Labour party list
In office
12 October 1996 – 19 November 1998
Succeeded byHelen Duncan[n 1]
25th Mayor of Palmerston North
In office
10 October 1998 – 13 October 2001
Preceded byPaul Rieger
Succeeded byMark Bell-Booth
Personal details
Born (1941-02-22) 22 February 1941 (age 83)
Feilding, New Zealand
Political partyLabour Party (1990–present)
ProfessionTeacher, Nurse

Jacqueline Jill White (born 22 February 1941) is a former New Zealand Labour Party politician, and a registered nurse.[1]

Early life and career

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White was born in Feilding in 1941. She attended Manchester Street Primary School and Feilding Agricultural High School before attending Victoria University of Wellington where she gained a Bachelor of Science and then Canterbury Teachers' College.[2] She later completed a Master of Arts at Massey University.[3]

She first worked as a secondary school teacher in New Zealand from 1965, and later Samoa via Volunteer Service Abroad, before becoming a nurse in 1972. White also worked in the United Kingdom as a nurse before returning to New Zealand in 1979 where she became a community and public nurse before retiring in 1988.[2]

Local body politics

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White was a councillor on Palmerston North City Council from 1983 to 1992. This was followed by some years in Parliament, a role from which she resigned in 1998 to become Mayor of Palmerston North. She held that post until 2001.[4][5][6] She was the first woman to hold the position. In 1989, she was elected a member of the Manawatu-Wanganui Regional Council, remaining a member until 1994 when she resigned.[2] She was later a Horizons Regional Councillor from 2007 until 2013.

White's community involvement was with the Girl Guides, District Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse and the National Council of Women.[2]

Member of Parliament

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New Zealand Parliament
Years Term Electorate List Party
1993–1996 44th Manawatu Labour
1996–1998 45th List 9 Labour

From 1993 to 1998, she was a member of Parliament for the Labour Party, first as MP for Manawatu and then as a list MP.[7] In 1996, she had stood in Rangitīkei unsuccessfully.[8]

Notes

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  1. ^ Normally, list MPs do not have individual predecessors or successors, but White resigned during a sitting parliament and therefore was succeeded by Duncan.

References

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  1. ^ Temple, Philip (1994). Temple's Guide to the 44th New Zealand Parliament. Dunedin: McIndoe Publishers. ISBN 0-86868-159-8.
  2. ^ a b c d Who's Who 1993, p. 82.
  3. ^ White, Jill (2007). An uneasy relationship : Palmerston North City and the Manawatu River, 1941-2006 (Master of Arts thesis). Massey University.
  4. ^ "Duncan says bye like she said hi – late". The New Zealand Herald. 4 August 2005. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
  5. ^ "1990s". Palmerston North City Council. Archived from the original on 11 October 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2010.
  6. ^ Matheson, Ian Roderick (2003). "Palmerston North Borough and City Councillors". Council and community: 125 years of local government in Palmerston North 1877–2002. Palmerston North City Library. pp. 91–100. ISBN 0-473-09340-5.
  7. ^ "Women in parliament 1933–2005". Elections New Zealand. Archived from the original on 14 October 2008. Retrieved 26 January 2010.
  8. ^ "Electorate candidates for election". The Dominion. 19 September 1996. p. 17.

Works cited

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New Zealand Parliament
Preceded by Member of Parliament for Manawatu
1993–1996 		Constituency abolished
Political offices
Preceded by Mayor of Palmerston North
1998–2001 		Succeeded by
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